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At Friday s close, these were the five highest market cap U.S. companies:Exxon (XOM), $315.38 billion.Microsoft (MSFT): $256.71 billion.Apple (AAPL): $205.48 billion.Wal-Mart (WMT): $205.09 billion.

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Someone sure doesn t like Duke Energy (DUK) CEO James Rogers.In an otherwise routine SEC filing, Applied Materials (AMAT) late Friday disclosed the results of its latest board election. There weren

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Apple (AAPL) disclosed in an SEC filing that the compensation committee of the company s board on Wednesday approved a one-time bonus of $5 million in cash and 75,000 restricted stock units to COO T

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One of the least understood relationships in the telecom sector involves the 45% stake in Verizon Wireless (VZ) owned by Vodafone (VOD).In this week s edition of the weekly Bernstein Research Wee

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Would read documents the old-fashioned way.Nvidia (NVDA) has stepped up the rhetoric in its combat versus Intel (INTC), launching a new Web site - which it calls The Case for Innovation - which

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Sirius XM (SIRI) this morning said it intends to sell $550 million of senior notes due 2015 to qualified institutional investors. Proceeds will be used to redeem all of the company s 9.625% senior n

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Cbeyond (CBEY) shares are trading higher today on a pair of upgrades.Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst Michael Funk this morning raised his rating to Neutral from Underperform, with a new target o

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LDK Solar (LDK) late yesterday revised its Q4 estimate on revenues and shipments. The company says it now expects to report revenue for the quarter of $300 million to $310 million, up from $280 millio

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Apple (AAPL) today began taking pre-orders for the iPad, with a limit of two per customer.The WiFi versions begin shipping April 3; the 3G versions become available toward the end of the month.Custome

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Nokia (NOK) this morning said it has revised its estimate of the size of the 2009 mobile device market to 1.26 billion units, up from its previous estimate of 1.15 billion. The company said the revi

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